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Orthotics will be custom made (got some plaster casts today; they'll be ready in three weeks). They're supposed to change the way I toe-off, basically not allowing my big toes to extend so much and transferring the movement to the middle of my foot. Or something along those lines. I'll still get push off my toes, they just won't come up as much. On the x-ray you could clearly see that the joint there is not normally shaped. It's supposed to be a ball and socket, but mine is much more like two flat bones running past each other. And the joint space isn't big enough. All that has led to a nice bone spur on top of my foot. My metatarsal rubbing up against the spur is what's making me hurt. Also, I'm to get stiffer-soled shoes. Balls.
Anyway, had a nice easy workout today. It's so beautiful outside I can hardly believe it.
run @easy pace x25mins, 3 miles -- 8:20 pace. HR was around 151. Something about running outside makes me able to go a lot faster than I could on a treadmill with lower HR and MUCH lower perceived effort. This run felt easy. Fuck treadmills.
florians jaw is going to get knocked so hard, that redneck wouldnt even be able to eat mashed potatoes
gomi is going make quick work of florians weak chin using his superior boxing. GO GOMI!!!!!111111111
Ouch, his fucking spine..
darq, how would you describe you squatting style? Have you changed it up since you last trained for vert at all, besides not doing much full squatting anymore?
QuoteSide rant not aimed at anyone here: Most HS and College SC coaches SUCK!!! SUCK!!! oh they SUCK!! We get so many kids with problems that could have been prevented with solid coaching that it makes me sick!
This is a call em out to all HS SC coahces:
Get your head out of your ass. Cause Good Ol' Boyd did it in the 90's doesn;t make it right. Try something new like being open minded and learning something once in a while. Get your head out of your ass.
If your fucking kid cant squat right what makes you think, in your feeble mind, that you can coach a proper clean or snatch!
True dat mofo
Charlie Francis lists the half squat as a key exercises for sprinters and repeatedly talks about how important it was for Ben Johnson (steroids or not). Saying that sprinters shouldn't train like powerlifters is so obvious as to be completely meaningless. No coach worth anything has ever said that they should. Worst. Straw man. Ever. But just because a sprinter's training should revolve mostly around sprinting (um, duh) doesn't mean that squats are evil.
strooooong BSS man!
awesome.
Saw podiatrist today. Upshot: Gonna get some custom orthotics to wear pretty much all the time. Gonna keep going to MT. And gonna get surgery in October.
Also, looking at x-rays of yourself is cool.
Just got around to skimming that interview. Guess you kind of said it already, but this Korfist guy goes on the Mike Boyle Memorial Coaching Dumbass Hall of Fame. Figured I'd quote the offending passage in its entirety because really, you can't make this shit up:Quote
Special. Just special.
I have a coup[le pointsin CK's defense:
1. He is not anti-squat, rather he doesn;t like the way it is coached and performed. I would agree with him on this. You want to squat in a way that carries over to the field of play and doesn't create "compensation patterns". Everyone has to agree wtih the NSCA comment. They preach all you need is squats and olympics and anyone who disagrees is basically a nut.
2. Most importantly don't throw the baby out with the bath water. How many people give jay schroeder a chance with all of his ridiculous and BS claims (right adarqui) like adam achuletta holding a squat with like 500lbs in the ATG oposition for 5 minutes and then having to stand up with the bar? Or the russians, like verkhoshansky bondarchuck and zatsiorsky , who claimed that they had athletes doing depth jumps off a 20 ft tall building (this is true they used to claim it and that is prolly why jay used the example in that interview). Of course we know this was BS or didn;t agree with it but it never stopped anyone from reading supertraining (which is a way harder book than the inno-sport book). point being is that CK is a very bright coach and we can learn a lot from him, don;t let the squat thing or the fact that he challenges some deep seeded beliefs throw you off. I should note I am a bit biased because the athletes who I can get to use the CK's style of squatting see enormous improvements in performance indicators (like VJ and Sprint). The problem is attention to detail and ego. Most athletes can't spend time lifting light weights to relearn the squat.
